inviting

[in-vahy-ting]

adjective

1. attractive, alluring, or tempting.

   an inviting offer.

inviting

/ ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ /

adjective

1. tempting; alluring; attractive

Other Word Forms

• invitingly adverb
• invitingness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of inviting¹

First recorded in 1580–90; invite + -ing ²

Example Sentences

“Thank you for inviting us into your space.”

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Joylette would walk up and down the street inviting people to see her new baby, whom we immediately started calling Connie.

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Yet Damascus’s fostering instability by excluding and massacring communities will undermine that opportunity by inviting renewed foreign interference.

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Herzog said they wanted to pay their respects to Breuer’s hard-edge design while also finding subtle ways to make the space more useful for Sotheby’s—like that huge freight elevator—and inviting to the public.

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The West is still an inviting landscape for once-shivering Massachusetts refugees.

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